Writing the Book (8 Dec 08)

Monday, December 8, 2008
by Geoff Young
I hope everyone had an excellent Thanksgiving. I'm finally settling back into my routine and almost caught up on emails. If I still owe you a response, this is probably the week it happens. I got a ton of work done in Hawai'i, which is good because I've been stressing about the whole book thing. Having a bunch of unstructured time without Internet access allowed me to crank out the pages. Of course, now I have to type them all up, but that's another story... Ted Simmons and the Hall of Fame Before we talk about the book, I wanted to mention an article of mine that ran at Hardball Times while I was gone. It asked whether new Padres bench coach ...
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Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule

Saturday, November 22, 2008
by Geoff Young
Forgive the lack of updates this past week. I rolled out of bed on Monday, blinked, and it was Saturday. Time is not your friend. We're off to Hawai'i for the annual Thanksgiving shindig at my wife's family's farm. I'm prepping some articles (mostly annotated reruns) to run in my absence; although discussion is always welcome, comments may be held up in the moderation queue a little longer than usual. I will get to stuff when I can, but my priorities over the next two weeks are: Hang out with family Eat good home cookin' Work on the book Do nothing Anything else is a luxury, and I make no guarantees. I also have a couple of articles scheduled to run elsewhere at some point. One is on Padres bench coach Ted ...
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Vacation Recovery Mode

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
by Geoff Young
Hi there. Sorry for going incommunicado on you. We were off in Hawai'i doing the Thanksgiving/anniversary thing; I'd intended to post a few updates from yonder, but first I lost my motivation and then I lost my wi-fi (the in-laws are pretty far off the grid). Anyway, I hope everyone had a good holiday. One of the benefits of being off line for so long is that I got to catch up on my reading. I finished David Browne's Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley, and got well into The Book (finally!) and Neil Peart's Roadshow. Even managed to read the first few entries in The Best American Essays of the Century, edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Good ...
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